Hi, everyone!
Since I last wrote, more of the spring flowers have bloomed. All the colors of crocus have blossomed in Grandma and Grandpa’s yard, and the daffodils and forsythia flowers are open, too! The weather was warm enough and dry enough that Grandpa got out and cut down the leaning tree in the backyard. I was a good helper with the saw and taking all the tree limbs to the road for the town to pick up.
Last weekend, we were able to get out in the yard at Sodus, too. The deer ate most of the leaves off the emerald euonymus shrubs, and some of the azalea branches, too! It looks like the very cold weather hurt the azaleas that the deer didn’t eat. Grandma says this happened before and the azaleas will grow back in time. Grandma and I took our first walk in the woods, but none of the wildflowers are up yet. I could hear a woodpecker, but I couldn’t see where it was! The sun was warm enough that I could lie outside and enjoy it!
On Sunday afternoon, Grandma took me to see my friends at Highland Park. First we went to the Poet’s Garden, because that’s where the earliest flowers bloom. The magnolia trees are just starting to open their buds, but my scilla and helleborus and daffodil flower friends were all open. I like the way the scilla grow right up through the grass of the lawn!
From the Poet’s Garden, we went on to the main part of Highland Park. Only a few of the magnolia trees are in bloom in the sunnier parts of the park, but they are very pretty! All my lilac friends are just beginning to open their leaves because we had such a long, cold winter. Guess what? I saw my groundhog friend again, in the same burrow among the roots of a big lilac bush where I found him three years ago! Grandma says we’ll come back for more visits in Highland Park when the tulips and magnolias and lilacs and azaleas are in bloom, but I think it’s a pretty place at this time of year, too! I especially liked the color of the trunk of this tree: I never noticed how pretty it was when the leaves were on it!
This morning, when I woke up, there was snow on the deck! Grandma and Grandpa’s niece Bev is getting married in June and wants haiku poems as wedding gifts, so Grandma and I have been practicing writing them. Here’s mine from this morning:
Amidst daffodils
Snowfall greets as morning comes.
Spring in Rochester!
Love,
Lion-san